Dayon! is an easy to use, cross-platform remote desktop assistance solution.
It consists of two parts - one for the assistant and one for the assisted. Both are included in one single package. As quick launch versions for Windows, they are also available as individual binaries and as snap for various linux distributions.
- easy setup (no router or network configuration needed on the assisted side)
- intuitive, multilingual user interface (de, en, es, fr, it, ru, tr, zh)
- assistant and assisted functionality in one package
- secure, encrypted communication (TLS)
- very low bandwidth usage
- cross-platform
- open source
- free (as hugs)
Dayon! was originally developed by Marc Polizzi back in 2008.
With his consent, I have taken over the maintenance and further development of this software in late 2016. I also moved the code base to GitHub, where it can easier be maintained.
The is v11.0 (Ballsy Beaver) - released more than ten years after the initial release.
This version comes with a new, access token based network configuration of the assisted.
The app is available directly from the Microsoft Store:
and as snap:
or from ppa:regal/dayon
Currently, there is no online documentation available for Italian, Spanish, Russian and Turkish. Please refer to the English or French version.
Dayon! means "Come in!" in Visayas - a local Philippine dialect.
The project can be built with Maven:
mvn clean package
or with Ant:
ant clean build
Have a look at pom.xml
or build.xml
for details and advanced options.
Any feedback and contributions are very welcome.
You don't have to be a programmer!
For example translations for additional languages would make this app more useful for more earthlings - see: src/main/resources/Babylon.properties or docs
Also improvements of the existing translations and documentation are very welcome! For example, my current knowledge of Chinese is far below zero - and my knowledge of Russian or Turkish just fractions better..
Some additional testing, especially on macOS would also be highly appreciated.